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At about 2 p.m. on May 7, 1915, Theodate Pope of Farmington, and her companion, Harvard man, Edwin Friend, were strolling along the promenade deck of the ocean liner R.M.S. Lusitania on the starboard rail when suddenly the ship was rocked by a violent explosion. "The sound was like an arrow entering the canvas and straw of a target, magnified a thousand times," Pope would recall, "and I imagined I heard a dull explosion follow." The luxury Cunard liner Lusitania, the largest and fastest passenger vessel afloat, had been torpedoed by a German submarine. She would sink in just 18 minutes, with a loss of nearly 1,200 lives, including 128 Americans. Among the dead were...

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